Good food, friends and fellowship and then we begin two months of cold, ice and snow and miserable weather. I hate January and February--the grass is brown, the trees are bare and it is too miserable to do anything outside. The only thing to do in our small town in winter is walk around the grocery store or Walmart or go to the gym and work out with all the other old codgers. From New Years Day I start counting down the days until spring. Actually things start getting better on December 21 (December Solstice).